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To whoever may figure this puzzle out, thank you so much in advance! The situation: AIM! Normally, when the buddy list is minimized, it goes and hides in the system tray. This was so with XP, Vista, and Win 7 Beta/RC. However... Win 7 Ultimate, no such deal. The AIM icon STAYS on the taskbar...

Hey everyone, this is my first post so please bear with me. I just got this OS X theme working and I then tried to change the system tray icons. After, my taskbar is thick as if I were using large icons. But im not. Heres a screenshot of what Im talking about. can someone help? I tried reverting...

I have a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS installed on a machine with 8 GB RAM on a quad core processor. I find one very strange problem very frequently from past few days. The number of start up programs have increased gradually and this means that around 15 to 20 system tray icons appear in...

I'm new so forgive me if I'm doing this wrong. I just upgraded to windows 7. I can't print. I've downloaded drivers, I've tried two different printers. It printed the test page when I first set things up, but now nothing. It also takes forever to cancel/delete a print job when I click on cancel...

I don't want to automatically update Windows when there are new updates and therefor i've set Win Update to letting me know there are new updates and then manually selecting which ones i want to download. This is causing Windows to show a small flag in the system tray with a message about...

Hello, Programs like MSN Live and AIM create icons on the task bar for simply running, even if they are not actively being used. I just switched from XP where programs like AIM and MSN Live would just stay in the system tray in the bottom right corner of the screen. I highly prefer this. If i...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link Removed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link Removed If you’ve made the switch to Windows 7 and use Windows Live Messenger, you might have noticed the icon stays in the new Taskbar. If you...

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I have added a Greek Key board > control panel>Redion and Language>Change > add key board The pop up screen show the tree structure with EN english and the EL greek key boards BUT the icons do not show in the system tray - bottom right as they used to in my XP system So I can not flip between...

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Hi. I must say i really like what they did with the gadgets, it's just easier to administrate the desktop space. However i do miss the sidebar button on the systemtray to bring the gadgets back up, for me sometimes it is much easier using the mouse rather than the keyboard to bring attention to...

Hi, I've Windows 7 Ultimate and up until this week I had no issue with wireless connection and it still works but here is the problem. For about a week everytime I log into my Windows, my wireless connection icon on the system tray shows with "X" but if I click on troubleshoot then after couple...

Hi, Does anyone know how to decipher the entries in TrayNotify area of the registry? I am working with a program that provides an option to run in the system tray and when selected, it runs in the backgound while its icon is put in the notification area overflow and can be seen when the overflow...

Hello, I hope you are doing well. I think the Action Center is not too bad, so I'd rather have it running. However, is there any way I can not have the icon show up in the system tray unless there is a suggested action that I should take? Thank you, Vic

Ok so in Vista I could right click on the outlook icon and choose minimize to system tray; that way it was still running and would send and receive every 30 min. How do I do this in Windows 7?

It's not really a problem, but it IS a little irritating. On XP, when I click the red "X", messenger goes down to the System Tray, but on Windows 7, it stays on the start menu but has no visible window on the desktop. Messenger v2009 build 14.0.8064.206 is installed on both systems, and the...

I'm a noob to these forums but am a desktop support technician with over a decade of experience, but I'm havnig a problem I'm at a loss for. I recently did a clean install of the RTM on a fairly beefy homebuilt PC. The install completed fine without any errors. However, after two weeks of...

Seems to have happened after installing the last Windows Live Essentials & Microsoft Search Enhancement Pack updates from Windows Update. If I right click the system tray and go to properties, then check "Customize notification icons" it shows everything set to "Only show notifications" and...

I'd like to minimize a program to the hidden icon window in the task bar. Is this possible with windows 7? I use to run a program on XP called 4t tray Minimizer and I'm homing I don't have to fall back to that in order to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

When I try to customize the task bar, and I get to the system tray (notification area), icons, and I mark several "show icon & notifications", then click ok twice, they are visiable for about 15 min. then they revert back to "show notification only". This is annoying as I have several icons that...